Yeah, they prevent Trump from imposing tariffs too, but oh well!
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I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm. I hope.
"I thought the Titans of industry would be the guardrails of democracy".
Such bullshit. Industry has always loved fascism, it's the ideal state for corporations. This explains why mainstream politics in the US has been inching towards fascist authoritanism since at least Nixon.
Trump didn't start this... he's just the right guy at the right time, the US would have gotten here sooner or later.
The foreign student program is so fucking rife with exploitation it's ridiculous. It could be cleaned up overnight if we had some real regulation and oversight of the thousands of "business colleges" that exploit them... but then we'd be killing a cash cow, I guess.
They can't admit they have forest fire smoke blowing north, after all the Republicans demanded we stop letting ours blow south.
This is an old conservative trick: 1) defund public services 2) divert blame for the negative results on an 'enemy class' of citizen who are abusing and breaking public services 3) distract with a witch-hunt for these enemies;
In the 80s the enemies were "welfare queens", now they're immigrants.
Or even more basically:
- what's good for business is generally not what's good for society.
Of all his disinformation victories, anti-vaxx has to be Putin's personal fave.
lol wut? Because cloud data storage isn't a thing any more? Because giving money and data to foreign companies is awesome? What do you know that the rest of the world doesn't?
Even if they only ever hosted for the fed gov, this would still be a worthwhile project, if only to stop spending that money abroad.
Nah, they got kompromat on her. Bribery will get you some baubles but it's too voluntary and you can always get outbid. You gotta get coercive if you really want to own someone's soul.
11 months after the fact, we are getting to the truth of the matter.
Unfortunately for all of us, the disinformation was virtually instant.
We are so fucked.
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Or, maybe it's not (just) distraction. Maybe he is seeding interest amongst the Canadian magatards. Maybe this is designed to give traction to Dani Smith and her ilk, to create division and internal strife.
Maybe Trump and the repubs have been following a playbook for all his Canada talk... maybe Putin's playbook on Ukraine.